simultaneous recording (seperate tracks)

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For equipment I have a Sound Blaster Audigy Plat. card along with a Behringer Eurorack 1604 as a mixing console. The problem I face is that I can't seem to record tracks simultaneously and have them be seperate. I use Cakewalk Sonar 2.0 as a program (whether that makes a difference or not, I don't know). People are saying that the obstacle I have to overcome is to have more inputs available because my sound card only has one Line/Mic in. Is this true? If so, are there things I can do before having to resort to purchasing another sound card? I'd appreciate any help.
 
Ebicaneezer said:
For equipment I have a Sound Blaster Audigy Plat. card along with a Behringer Eurorack 1604 as a mixing console. The problem I face is that I can't seem to record tracks simultaneously and have them be seperate. I use Cakewalk Sonar 2.0 as a program (whether that makes a difference or not, I don't know). People are saying that the obstacle I have to overcome is to have more inputs available because my sound card only has one Line/Mic in. Is this true? If so, are there things I can do before having to resort to purchasing another sound card? I'd appreciate any help.
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You can't record more tracks than you have analog inputs. That's sort of basic. If you have one input, and you mix everything together into it, how will the different things sort themselves out and figure out where to go?

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if your "one" input is stereo, which -- if so -- would make it actually two inputs.
 
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Thanks for the reply. You left off saying that my one input would be two because it's stereo. Would there be a way that I can record just two tracks simultaneously and have them turn out seperate? I've tried having the two cables from the mixer outs come together with a "Y" connector that's stereo and then into my one input. That didn't seem to prove successful. It's safe to say that all this is pretty new to me, therefore some of these questions may seem a little dumb. We all start somewhere though.
 
stereo

You have to make sure the mixer outputs are panned hard left and hard right to make them end up on seperate channels. Oh, and make sure that your recorder is set to receive on the two seperate channels too ie SB Left and SB right.

If that's not clear, ask again!
 
After panning hard left and right on ur mixer. Get a converter that coverts your XLR outputs from ur mixer into a 1/8" stereo in.

open 2 new tracks in Sonar, right click on each of them, and select Sound Blaster left/right ins for each channel.

this should do it

AL
 
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